In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

An international effort called Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) aims to transform crops' ability to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into higher yields. To achieve this, scientists ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 114, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: Functional-Structural Plant Modelling (September 2014), pp. 677-688 (12 pages) • Background and Aims Maximizing photosynthesis at the canopy level is ...

On Nov. 14, The Biology Colloquium, hosted by the University of Wisconsin Botany and Integrative Biology Departments, is a series of interactive lectures that cover a wide range of topics. In Birge ...

THE advocates of an exclusively experimental course of study in the natural sciences are confronted with the difficulty of time limitations, so that in practice it becomes necessary to strike a ...

ACCORDING to the regulations of the Cambridge Local Examinations, 1883, junior students can alone take botany, while senior students must take elementary biology instead. What has been the result?

Researchers have revealed a new approach to estimate the photosynthetic capacity of crops to pinpoint their top-performing traits and speed up the plant screening process, according to a new study. An ...